The Romanians used the darkness to approach the town on Board 1. The plan was (since capture of the town was mandatory to achieve victory) to engulf the town with the full force before trying to clear the road. Because the Russians were entrenched and had higher morale, the plan was to wear them down some with concentrated fire, then move in with engineers to help equal the odds a little. The Romanians were lucky enough to have more than one leader with a combat bonus. The wearing down process went fairly well, though the Russians rolled incredibly well for recovery. With the one or two units they had to fire at the Romanians they managed to inflict moral checks...the only units to fail were the engineers. This made the close assaults unsuccessful. The same turn their artillery caused a one step loss on a stack with the Colonel in it...a two was rolled for leader loss and the Colonel was gone. This froze up key units to continue the attack. With artillery and counterattacks (at higher moral) the Romanian attack was stopped cold. At this point time constraints (turns left) made the Romanian player realize there was no way he could accomplish his victory conditions and he conceded.

Soviets are dug-in and entrenched along an east-west railroad on the east half of the board. Romanians need to keep their east-west rail clear on the west half and clear out the Soviets on the east half AND clear a town to the north. (Sigh) The Romanians must march bravely into doom. At least it will be a short game.

Romanian puny 2x10 OBA and strangled air support won't have significant affect on the dug-in Soviets so the Romanians advance and engage dug-in and entrenched Soviets with the expected results.

About a third way through the scenario it became clear that the Romanians could not win but may be able to leap in at the very last turn to a hex adjacent to the east-side railroad and squeak by a Draw. Soviets soon perceived this strategy and decided that all Romanians must meet their maker. They left their trenches and began to hunt every Romanian unit.

By the end of the first half of the game it was clear that the Romanians could not even advance to be adjacent to the railroad and resigned.

Questions:

1. I played every road hex as a railroad. Is this correct? Or is only the east-west road a railroad?
2. I located the armored train in a town hex (see question 1). The Soviets had the Romanian air target this hex knowing that an armored unit is (almost) impervious to direct fire thereby completely (almost) thwarting the air strikes. Was this correct?